Intel claims  Core i3–8145U is better than AMD's Ryzen 7 3700U
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Have Russian Trolls taken over Intel's marketing

There are moments in PR land where we can't help wondering what they were thinking, but this release from Intel made us think that the outfit had been taken over by Putin's Fake News trolls.

Chipzilla pulls old drivers from site
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Tuesday, 19 November 2019 11:48

Chipzilla pulls old drivers from site


Sorry Babbage machine owners you are not supported any more

Chipzilla plans to remove old drivers and BIOS updates from its official website.

Intel unveils GPUs optimised for AI and HPC
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Monday, 18 November 2019 11:28

Intel unveils GPUs optimised for AI and HPC


You can’t play Halo on them

Chipzilla has been showing off its latest high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI)  gear with a new category of discrete general-purpose GPUs optimised for AI and HPC convergence.

Intel now suffers from TPM-FAIL
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Thursday, 14 November 2019 10:39

Intel now suffers from TPM-FAIL


Allows an attacker to retrieve cryptographic keys

Intel has fixed two vulnerabilities discovered by a team of academics called TPM-FAIL that could allow an attacker to retrieve cryptographic keys stored inside TPMs.

Intel fixes something it said fixed six months ago
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Dutch researchers found Intel's patch only fixed some of the issues

Chipzilla has issued a patch for some processor vulnerabilities which were supposed to have been fixed in an earlier patch it released six months ago.

Intel begins production of Stratix 10 chip
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Friday, 08 November 2019 13:46

Intel begins production of Stratix 10 chip


The die is cast

Intel has started production of a new high capacity Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) for production emulation systems.

Intel caught pushing "dodgy" benchmarks
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Thursday, 07 November 2019 09:46

Intel caught pushing "dodgy" benchmarks


Tell me it isn't so

Chipzilla has been accused of fudging benchmarks to show the advantage of a dual Intel Xeon Platinum 9282 system versus the AMD EPYC 7742.

AMD and Intel gear up for high-profile launches
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Will higher motherboard prices be AMD's Achilles heel?

A processor war is expected to erupt this month as Intel and AMD square off with three big product launches across mainstream and high-end platforms.

Intel relaunches new Xeon E-2200
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Monday, 04 November 2019 11:01

Intel relaunches new Xeon E-2200


It is now a Low-end server processor

Intel is relaunching the Xeon E-2200 line, which it first introduced in May for workstations, as a low-end server processor for simpler tasks.

Intel's security problems are not going away
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Tuesday, 29 October 2019 12:25

Intel's security problems are not going away


Linux man warns

Chipzilla's security problems are not going away, Linux kernel maintainer, Greg Kroah-Hartman has warned.